Just have a custom rod built to your specs. With CRB or Matagi carbon tube handle assemblies, you can push a blank out almost 1 foot longer than the blank length, depending on how long you need the rear grip to be.

Try not to let your mind wander. It is much too small to be outside unsupervised.

3/16, 10 lbs braid. Seems like you may do better with L rather than UL rods? normally trout rods are UL but your type of fishing may land fish more efficiently (defined by landing fish with highest % success per hour of time invested and in the shortest fight time possible to land) by using L blanks, or heavier UL blanks that on the higher power range within the UL category. However, it may be more enjoyable to fight fish on a rod that is more limber and one can feel the bend from the fish more...

This is, of course, all conjecture as only you know exactly what you need.

ultralight wrote:3/16, 10 lbs braid. Seems like you may do better with L rather than UL rods? normally trout rods are UL but your type of fishing may land fish more efficiently (defined by landing fish with highest % success per hour of time invested and in the shortest fight time possible to land) by using L blanks, or heavier UL blanks that on the higher power range within the UL category. However, it may be more enjoyable to fight fish on a rod that is more limber and one can feel the bend from the fish more...

This is, of course, all conjecture as only you know exactly what you need.